Posted on 08/26/2015 10:31:01 AM PDT by rktman
The news media defines it much differently.
My favorite study on this subject is the Harvard Law School study titled WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?
It can be found at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf
It concludes as follows:
The burden of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death mantra, especially since they argue public policy ought to be based on that mantra.149 To bear that burden would at the very least require showing that a large number of nations with more guns have more death and that nations that have imposed stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions in criminal violence (or suicide). But those correlations are not observed when a large number of nations are compared across the world.
Good lord....
That website is about as bad as the SPLC when it comes to bleeding heart propaganda.
Nothing but emotion and idiocy....
You will find that America is plunk in the middle, in those numbers.
As Archie Bunker once famously said:
Gloria: Did you know that 65% of the people murdered in this country were killed by handguns?
Archie: Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?
Thank you for the link.
Which stadium holds 543,000 people?
It was a joke, dude. Hyperbole to make a point. You see, Luxembourg is a small country, as is Andorra, and ...
And if the mostly gang and drug related black on black homicides that occur in our major metropolitan areas run by black Democrats for the last 40-50 years (all have strict gun control ordinances, dontcha know) are set aside, the rate for the US drops even farther down the graph...
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